The PhantomHokage: I'm glad to hear that my story is interesting. And to your question, I don't want to spoil so I only could say, have patience or maybe read some chapters again and look for the hidden details.


Lucy lies in her her coffin, thinks about yesterday. First, Lincoln's answer to her question if she is beautiful to him. Then the conversation with Haiku after the little ceremony at the cemetery. It was a lot she had in her head right now. And everything is about this one boy in her life. "Sigh."


"Ok, Lucy. Your brother should be distracted for a while. What is it that you need to talk?"

Haiku had told Lincoln that he should close his eyes and focus on the darkness in his heart to communicate with it so the two girls can talk more privately. "I thank you Haiku."

"I am always there when you need help. After all it was you who have given me the sign that it is important, but cannot talk about it at the moment."

"I do not want that Lincoln hears about it. It is. How should I say? I think as my brother he could intervene to try to protect me."

"I understand. So, with this specific detail, I presume it has to do with another boy?"

"I start to have those confusing feelings that I should not have."

"What feelings exactly and why should you not have them?"

Lucy couldn't tell that it is about Lincoln itself. So she has to lie a bit. She doesn't like this, at all, but how would she react about something so big? "I … sigh, I feel jealous. Jealous of you."

"Me? Why is that so?"

"You are truly beautiful and so elegant. Every boy in the cafe is looking after you. But I? I am jut a little kid, a girl that has nothing special about her."

"That is not true my dear friend. You are not less beautiful than me. You have your own beauty and all the boys there are not seeing this. Why do you think have I rejected them all?"

"Because you have already found your love." The small Goth said while pointing at her locket with the picture in it.

"Yes, this is one reason. But the other is that they all just see the beauty what is in front of them, but not the beauty who lies deep inside of me. They don't see what I can see in you." Haiku laid a hand on Lucy's shoulder to emphasize her words.

"But still, he would never see me as something else as his si... as a friend. I know I should not have this kind of feelings, he never will feel the same like me."

"I know very well how you feel. But unrequited love is not completely bad. It can help you to become an even better writer. Even for us who we live in the night, in the world of darkness, there has not to be everything black."

"It has not?"

"No, as an example. Our skin is so pale, that it nearly is white like your brother's hair was once before. And so not every bad situation or hurt has to be fully dark."

"I think I understand."

"I hope I could help you Lucy."

"Not completely, but I feel a bit better now. Thank you for this, Haiku."


"Maybe she is right. It does not have to be everything just black. I think I go to Lincoln and look if he want to write something with me."

She stood up and made her way to Lincoln. As she knocked at his door there was no response. "Has he had gone anywhere?"

"I haven't seen him coming out of his room so far. But he also wasn't at the breakfast. Maybe he is still sleeping?"

Lucy looked to her left to see Lola with a worried look in her face. "It is nearly noon. I know he can be sometimes a bit of a sleepyhead, but this?." Maybe he is still tired from last night. He is not used to it to be up so late and go to the cemetery at a time like this. "I will look after him. I already want something from him, so I also can wake him."

"Ok, good luck with this." She gave her gloomy sister a thumbs up. "Oh, and remind him that he still had promised me to be my butler next time." Then she goes back to whatever she was doing before.

Lucy, quietly entered the room and see that indeed her big brother still lies in his bed. But it looked like he haven't a good sleep. He groans and is completely restless in his sleep, he also is very sweaty and looks like he is in pain. That alarmed Lucy.

"Lincoln, wake up. Lincoln." She shakes him as hard as she could to wake him up. It took a while, but soon he shot up with a fright look at his face like death himself was behind him.

"Where … where am I? What had happened?" He was completely disoriented and Lucy could see that the anxiety still stuck deep in his bones.

"Lincoln, anything is alright. You are at home, in your own bed. It was just a dream. I am here Lincoln, everything is alright."

He looked at her with wide open eyes, like he would see whatever he had seen in his dreams again if he close his eyes just for one second again. "Alright? Alright?! Do I look like I'm alright to you?!" He shouted at her.

"L... Lincoln, I … I just wanted to ..."

"You just wanted to, what?! I thought I am safe now! I thought all this was over and I hadn't to face something like this anymore!"

"Lin... Lincoln. It … it just was a … a dream." Lucy truly was scared by Lincoln shouting at her, he never ever had done something like this before.

"Just a dream?! It was a freaking nightmare! Even worst, it was like fucking hell! I knew it was bullshit was you and Haiku had made last night!"

Lucy was close to tears, not only had she failed her so beloved brother, but now he also was angry at her. She had messed up big time. "I'm sorry Lincoln, I'm truly sorry. I thought we had helped you, I don't know what went wrong."

"Oh, I know exactly what went wrong! I had trusted the wrong one!"

With those words she couldn't take it anymore. She runs out of his room, back at her and then hiding in the vents, so no one would see or hear her crying.

"What the heck was that?" Lola was looking what's going on with all the noise. "Oh, hey Linky. Good you're finally awake, then you can come to me and be my butler as promised." As the smell of sweat reached her she wrinkled her little nose. "Oh, but first take a shower. A butler has to smell good and not like Lynn after her morning training."

Lincoln glared angrily at her. "Why has it always to be me?! Just because I'm the only boy here?!"

Now even Lola looked surprised and a bit frightened. "What?"

"You always bother me, but never the others with your stupid games! Do you love it so much to push me around?!"

"N... no it isn't like this. I always ask you because I l..."

"Know what?! I don't care! I have enough of this! Search someone else for your stupid girly games!"

Lola, hurt from those words, fully burst out of tears and run back in her room. But Lincoln doesn't care, the only thing he wanted is he hot shower right now and he'll let nothing come in his way.

"Great! Just great! I thought I finally would get better and now they are back and even worse then ever before! This nightmare was completely terrible! What have I done in my life to deserve this!?"

After he had finished his shower, he goes back to his room and changed into one of his new outfits, he had bought. "I knew it was not enough, but what should I do?"

"Lincoln, can you come down for a minute?" He hears Lori calling from the lower floor.

I haven't time for this. "Sorry, but I'm busy right now!"

"It is very important and can't wait."

For fuck's sake, can't I have some rest for at least one day?! "Ok, ok! I'm coming!" As he goes down the stairs, he already has a bad feeling. "So what do you wa..."

Lori stood in front of the stairs with an angry look. All of his other older sisters plus Lucy, who clung to Leni, and a still crying Lola, are in the living room. "Here it comes."

"Could you, please, explain why Lola is crying her eyes out and Lucy looks like a deer in headlights?" The 'please' completely forced, it takes all of Lori's willpower to not shout at Lincoln herself.

At the time as Lincoln was under the shower, Luna had found Lola crying and Lynn found Lucy in the vents, curled together and sobbing. So, they called Lori and Lola told what had happened. Lucy didn't want to say a thing because she still blamed herself, but as Lori is, she managed to break Lucy and so she also had told her everything.

"I have a disastrous start in this piece of shit of a day and Lola had the nerves to bother me right from the start! She didn't care, that I'm just got up at this point!"

"Woah, woah, Language Lincoln. This isn't funny anymore."

"Oh, THIS isn't funny anymore?! Do you have thought at one point that your stupid pranks also aren't funny to us?! Every year it become more and more the worst! I have started to be scared of this one day in the year, because one day you could go completely overboard with it and hurt me for real!"

"What? Luan would never hurt you or anyone of us."

"Well, maybe not on purpose, not like you, Lynn! Do you know how many bruises, scraped knees, dislocated shoulders and even broken bones I had, just from you?!"

"Ok dude, that's all going way too far."

"Oh, but I haven't even started! What about all the experiments Lisa had done to me?! Or all the embarrassing moments when Leni had used me as her dresses doll?! And Lucy here?! She made me to one of them! Not to help me, but just so she had someone with the same interests! It hadn't helped me at all!"

Lucy, terrified from her own brother and his anger, clung on Leni even more now and tried to hide herself behind her big sister.

"Maybe we, sometimes, are a bit harsh to you. Also, we make mistakes. And I know that you have a tough time, but this isn't a reason to shout at your younger sisters. We just try to help you."

"Yeah, now where I'm so miserable that no one of you can't do something with me, you try to help!"

"What do you mean with this?"

"You all cares just about yourself! To my bad, I'm the only boy in this family, so I have to be the one that had to help you with everything! And because I'm not so talented like all of you, it is easy to control me!"

"What? No one controls you Lincoln. How could you think something like that?"

"Because it is exactly like this! You all knew that I am nothing and that I do everything to get at least a little bit of attention! And that, you all use to control me at your will!"

"What make you think something like that? No one of us do this."

"Oh please, spare me this. I finally knew it." Lincoln turned his back on his sisters and was going right to the door.

"Where do you think you're going? This isn't over, yet."

"Yeah, that had worked so well the last time, hasn't it?"

"Stop right there Lincoln!" Lynn was running at him and holding his shoulder. As he turned to face her, she only saw pure hate in his eyes.

He pushed her hand away and glared at her. "Don't touch me. Ever. Again!" Lynn was so shocked by this, that she couldn't stop him again.

Lincoln was gone and behind was a group of shocked and hurt sisters.


I'm very, very sorry for what I have done in this chapter. As I wrote it, I have felt so bad. I'm a bad person and I will understand when all Lucy and Lola fans out there are angry at me right now. But it had to be done. We are at a very important point of this story. Will things go better again or will it all go down? Well, find out in the next chapters. Thanks everyone for reading, liking and comment.